Well the wet weather seems to be following us around but we put on our rain jackets and headed out into the streets of Seville. Lots of old cobbled streets, obviously not designed for motor vehicles, I guess it is the first of many old European cities we will be seeing, but the age of some of the buildings - 1300's - some of them, is hard to get your head around when you look at how young NZ is in comparison.
Visited a little church, Basilica de la Macarena, very ornate, but it turns out it was only built in the 1930s! Also visited Seville Museum of Art (ancient, not modern). You would have been impressed SallyMay! Lots of paintings from the 15 and 1600's. We were able to study them up close too, amazing to see the detail and the scale of some of the works was huge, you can see the height of people against the paintings.
A few more landmarks to wander around tomorrow, hopefully without the rain this time.
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